"Capitalism is efficient" Oh is that why there are a million different middlemen whose only function is taking cuts on every transaction and aspect of daily life
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I work in software sales, and in many sales there are 4 or more middle entities involved in what would otherwise be a direct 1:1 sale to our customer, but we need to be on state contract vehicles or deal with a reseller due to procurement requirements. It's so obnoxious
And tbc all of these other 3+ middlemen entities are literally just pushing paper in this deal. They won't help deploy or support or answer questions, they just have the connections necessary to make the purchasing process easier for the purchaser
Love to work for a giant company that orders everything from Ingram Micro who orders everything from CDW who orders from 400 other resellers to get one license of Adobe InDesign for $12,000
Very efficiently American companies moved to China, gave all their manufacturing jobs to Chinese workers, paid all their taxes to the Chinese government so they could build a very large navy!!
*Not dissing Chinese people at all- just their government. That Govt is way smarter than US cos. tho.
I must say that what we have isn’t capitalism. It’s what happens when sociopaths run large corporations. Then they move manufacturing to CHINA and that has made China wealthy enough to threaten our NatSec. Meaning American lives.
Yet South Koreans have a very high standard of living, healthcare is very low cost, their education system produces some of the highest achieving graduates in the world. Many come here to study at our best universities.
Young people take education seriously there.
*Coked-up Oreo R&D Guy in a meeting with the C-level executive suite*
"So, you know how half of our customers love the creme filling and the other half love the crispy cookies? What if we took most of that filling out and made the cookies half as thick?!?"
really exhausting how every completely inane dipshit reply in this thread seems to involve self proclaimed "NAFO" members like how god damn smoothbrained you gotta be to le epic stan NATO
hell yeah, nothing should be good, america forever!!!
Self proclaimed?
We sign a contract with [redacted].
It says that we must be satanic and gay, while we dipshit people.
Here is a Barbie Putincorn for you to cry against.
I replied elsewhere but inflation adjusted we pay a lot less. If you want to fly business the service is still great and the prices are still extremely high
The only possible argument you could make is that the ticket adjusted for inflation is marginally less now for coach, forgetting tickets then included things like baggage and a carry on and a seat more akin to business class today.
It's the go-to refrain of everyone actively involved in the chain that puts $$$ into their pockets. It would be way more truthful to say that "Capitalism is profitable for me" but that truth is unpalatable for many. We're really good at lying to ourselves, most times.
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Truly an enlightened individual.
*Not dissing Chinese people at all- just their government. That Govt is way smarter than US cos. tho.
Young people take education seriously there.
"So, you know how half of our customers love the creme filling and the other half love the crispy cookies? What if we took most of that filling out and made the cookies half as thick?!?"
*Executives all nod furiously*
hell yeah, nothing should be good, america forever!!!
We sign a contract with [redacted].
It says that we must be satanic and gay, while we dipshit people.
Here is a Barbie Putincorn for you to cry against.
“Efficient” is one of those words that can hide a whole ideology’s worth of unstated assumptions and values.
Rigorous capitalist economists have long studied things like market failures.
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